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2023 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 117th worst of 252 Texas counties and 960th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 31, 2023 08:00 | February 11, 2023 10:00 | 11d 2h | 24,735 | 1.0M |
| 2 | September 25, 2023 00:15 | September 27, 2023 03:15 | 2d 3h | 10,871 | 73K |
| 3 | April 28, 2023 07:15 | April 30, 2023 08:45 | 2d 1h | 10,712 | 55K |
| 4 | December 3, 2023 09:45 | December 4, 2023 02:45 | 17h | 3,675 | 5,118 |
| 5 | April 20, 2023 20:45 | April 22, 2023 00:15 | 1d 3h | 3,264 | 17K |
| 6 | October 16, 2023 14:15 | October 19, 2023 00:30 | 2d 10h | 3,192 | 4,233 |
| 7 | April 2, 2023 13:45 | April 5, 2023 10:15 | 2d 20h | 2,781 | 15K |
| 8 | January 7, 2023 18:15 | January 7, 2023 22:45 | 4h 30m | 2,776 | 2,094 |
| 9 | May 19, 2023 14:30 | May 21, 2023 04:45 | 1d 14h | 2,722 | 20K |
| 10 | February 20, 2023 14:45 | February 21, 2023 01:00 | 10h 15m | 2,505 | 797 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 151 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 1.19 | 76 min | 0.85 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2023 | 11.2 hrs | 2.27 | 5.9 hrs | 1.89 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 35.3 hrs | 5.01 | 3.9 hrs | 3.99 |
| City of Bartlett - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Texas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 171,225 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, TX annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/texas/bell-county